TY - BOOK ID - 85645204 TI - Imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals : behavioural, social and communicative dimensions AU - Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. AU - Dautenhahn, Kerstin. PY - 2007 SN - 1107164095 1280909390 9786610909391 0511285434 0511286171 0511283830 0511320930 0511489803 0511284632 0521845114 0521108632 PB - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Robotics. KW - Robots KW - Robot control KW - Robotics KW - Automation KW - Machine theory KW - Control systems. KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85645204 AB - Mechanisms of imitation and social matching play a fundamental role in development, communication, interaction, learning and culture. Their investigation in different agents (animals, humans and robots) has significantly influenced our understanding of the nature and origins of social intelligence. Whilst such issues have traditionally been studied in areas such as psychology, biology and ethnology, it has become increasingly recognised that a 'constructive approach' towards imitation and social learning via the synthesis of artificial agents can provide important insights into mechanisms and create artefacts that can be instructed and taught by imitation, demonstration, and social interaction rather than by explicit programming. This book studies increasingly sophisticated models and mechanisms of social matching behaviour and marks an important step towards the development of an interdisciplinary research field, consolidating and providing a valuable reference for the increasing number of researchers in the field of imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals. ER -